Bobby Page #8

Synopsis: Tuesday, June 4, 1968: the California presidential primary. As day breaks Robert F. Kennedy arrives at the Ambassador Hotel; he'll campaign, then speak to supporters at midnight. To capture the texture of the late 1960s, we see vignettes at the hotel: a couple marries so he can avoid Vietnam, kitchen staff discuss race and baseball, a man cheats on his wife, another is fired for racism, a retired hotel doorman plays chess in the lobby with an old friend, a campaign strategist's wife needs a pair of black shoes, two campaign staff trip on LSD, a lounge singer is on the downhill slide. Through it all, we see and hear RFK calling for a better society and a better nation.
Director(s): Emilio Estevez
Production: The Weinstein Co.
  Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 7 wins & 15 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Metacritic:
54
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
2006
117 min
$11,098,707
Website
556 Views


We should apologize

for not doing our part.

What if we cost him

the election, man?!

Calm down, man.

You're freakin' me out.

- He's fine.

- I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Are you still high

from the acid?

No.

Maybe a little.

We didn't order this.

You guys got to eat something.

Why's that?

D... Place I have seen... d

Is this the first

time you two have turned on?

Oh, come on, fellas,

your pupils are like saucers.

Wh-What do you know?

You're from Iowa.

Ohio.

What, you think California's

the only place people drop acid?

Was I that obvious?

Got to break her in.

Okay.

Daryl.

What can I do for you?

Kennedy says

if he doesn't win California,

he will drop out of the race

for president.

Oregon voters have given...

Jack?

What?

Do you think I'm more

Jackie or more Ethel?

What do you mean?

If you had to pick one,

who would I be more

like, style-wise:

Jackie Bouvier or Ethel?

Are you serious?

Play along.

And you have to pick one.

Samantha.

What?

When do you feel like Samantha?

Oh, I don't know.

Oh, Jack, it was

just a little game.

Come on, it was a game.

What?

Can't keep track.

Of what?

I can't keep track of you.

I'm right here.

You are now.

Samantha.

You're more than the shoes

on your feet

or the designer dress

on your back.

You're more

than the purse you carry

or the money inside.

You and I are more

than the stuff, more than

the things in our lives.

Somewhere between our things

and our stuff is us.

I don't want to lose us.

I don't want to lose us either.

D d

Knock, knock, knock.

Hello.

So do you work here, young lady?

Well, somebody has to

bring home the bacon.

Aha! You finally admit it.

I am underpaid and undervalued.

ANNOUNCER Gilliam

even with the bag at third.

Parker doing

a little housecleaning

down there at first base.

And Drysdale looks in to Haller.

Don into his windup,

the pitch to Pena.

Bunt attempt is missed.

Oh and one.

Sh*t.

Larry Jackson on deck.

No balls and one strike,

the count to Roberto Pena.

Don working quickly.

What inning?

...and the strike one pitch.

Breaking ball

over the outside...

Bottom of the fourth.

No hits for Pittsburgh so far.

It took so long

to come to this moment.

May 14:
A rather uneventful

one-to-nothing score.

May 18:
A one-to-nothing score.

May 22:
People started to talk;

a two-to-nothing score.

May 26:
They began

to think about it seriously.

And there's a ground ball up

along the first-base line, foul.

Still oh and...

Did you fire Daryl Timmons

today?

Yep. He's a racist,

among other things.

What's she like, Paul?

Pardon me?

The woman

that you're sleeping with.

What's she like?

I don't know

what you're talking about.

We don't do this.

Other people do this, Paul,

but we don't do this.

You know, people

tell me all the time

how... lucky I am

to be married to you.

How wonderful you are.

And I agree.

I say, "Yes...

"he's wonderful.

"Yes...

I am lucky. "

Not because I have to.

Because I want to.

'Cause you are wonderful.

And...

And so much more.

You're...

You're...

You're strong.

You're a wonderful

father to those kids.

Oh, God.

D d

d d

- Oh, whoa!

- Whoa, whoa!

- Ebbers, you son of a b*tch!

- Come on.

- Put 'em up!

- Calm down!

Stop it.

You don't have to wait

till the end of the week!

I wasn't planning on it!

- All right.

- All right.

Easy. Easy!

Calm down.

All right, back to work.

I wish I could stay.

No, you cherish the fact

there's still someone at home

who worries about you

and, uh, cares about you.

- Cheers for the Scotch.

- Oh, good.

We'll do that more often.

Yeah.

Makes me feel like

I still have a pair.

Of course, our game

is another matter.

Yeah, well, you know,

perhaps tomorrow will be

more forgiving.

You've always...

always beat me at chess, John,

- Yeah.

- And you always will.

That's why you play me.

Perhaps you're right.

And tomorrow and tomorrow

and tomorrow.

Good night.

Sleep well.

Say hello to Dorothy.

Yes, I will.

Good night.

Evening, Mr. Casey.

Hey, Morris, how 'bout a coffee

and a bite to eat in the cafe?

Ah, I've-I've got

cats to feed.

Don't you have a

home to go to, John?

- See you tomorrow.

- Good night.

- He stepped out.

- Get a picture right there.

- I got it. I got it.

- He's there?

- Senator Kennedy?

- Senator! Senator!

- Senator Kennedy, this way.

- Please, stand back.

- Oh, that's him!

- Hello, sir.

Nice to meet you.

Senator Kennedy.

Welcome to

the Ambassador Hotel, sir.

Thank you very much.

- Senator, this way!

- Please, right this way, sir!

Follow us, sir.

Right this way.

- Sir...

- Senator, this way.

This is

a CBS News special report

on the California primary.

Here is Walter Cronkite.

Well, as we said a moment ago,

the count may be rather slow

from California tonight.

The voting out there

offers unusual complexities,

not only in the manner

of counting this year

for the first time, but in

the very process of balloting.

CBS News correspondent Mike

Wallace, at our studios here,

can perhaps give us

a little explanation

of that voting and the way

it's being tallied. Mike?

The actual, uh,

vote tabulation, Walter,

is going to be extremely slow,

tonight, in California.

A large part of the state,

including the 7,000 precincts

in Los Angeles County

are using new automated

voting equipment,

where the ballots

are counted by computers.

Now, although on the face of it,

that would seem to indicate

a faster count,

the fact is that the new voting

system is going to be slower

in the count.

Hello, David.

Hey, Wade.

So, Dwayne...

you ready to meet the next

President of the United States?

Come on, he's not gonna bite ya.

Oh, I wouldn't be

so sure about that.

Okay.

Go get him.

You'll be fine.

...sample of 89 precincts,

which, together,

represent closely

to where the state

votes and polls.

As soon as returns are

available from those 89...

Ladies and gentlemen,

the Coconut Grove

Proudly presents the lovely,

the talented, the incomparable

Virginia Fallon.

Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, yeah.

D Louie, Louie d

d Oh, oh... d

d I got to go d

d Louie, Louie d

d Oh, oh... d

d I got to go... d

D d

d d

D Ooh... d

d Never gonna break my faith d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh, ooh... d

d Never gonna break my faith d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh, ooh... d

d Ooh... d

Swung on,

a ground ball wide of third.

It's Blair, has the chance.

- D Never gonna break my faith d

- He's done it!

D Ooh... d

d Ooh... d

d Ooh, ooh... d

d Never gonna break my faith d

D Faith, ooh... d

Spring, 1946.

The last free election

in my country.

And yet the Communists

still took power.

That's not what

you asked, Mr. Buckley!

The Iron Curtain is coming down.

Dubcek favors greater relations

with the West.

He's the man of the people,

like Senator Kennedy.

I am not going to write

a propaganda piece.

After the senator's speech

in the Embassy Ballroom,

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Emilio Estevez

Emilio Estevez (; born May 12, 1962) is an American actor, director, and writer. He started his career as an actor and is well known for being a member of the acting Brat Pack of the 1980s, starring in The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, and acting in the 1983 hit movie The Outsiders. He is also known for Repo Man, The Mighty Ducks and its sequels, Stakeout and its sequel, Maximum Overdrive, Bobby (which he also wrote and directed), and his performances in Western films such as Young Guns and its sequel. more…

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